> Then he proposed legislation which would give himself wide-ranged emergency powers, which was approved by the democratically-elected parliament I'm German an

> Then he proposed legislation which would give himself wide-ranged emergency powers, which was approved by the democratically-elected parliament I'm German and graduate with polish-german history as honors class. Where to even start..... First of all, the only reason they took the political path was because Hitler's coup against the German government in 1923 failed. The "democratic" approval you paint here happened while the SA, the NSDAP's personal thug squad, as well as the SS (no introduction necessary) had infiltrated the building and were "observing" the voting procedure. This was illegal, especially since they were uniformed for intimidation. You are also ignoring the fact that this "technically constitutional" decision was only possible because they spontaneously (same day) changed the legal framework in a way that meant that non-present (intimidated) representatives count as present. Only this way they achieved the necessary votes. What even legitimized this situation in the first place was an exploitation of the weak Weimar constitution (as in abuse of loopholes due to it's young nature of 20 years, same applies to the German democratic history as a whole, first time a democratic persistent government was in power was in 1918). You are completely ignoring the Reichtagsbrandverordnung which eradicated the fundamental rights as well as the divison of powers (!) which should not have been able to be touched. This was a breach of the Weimar constitution by the way, so the Nazi rise to power was 100 % not constitutional. And lastly you decontextualized the comparison since Hitler obviously did a lot more than just being a cheater in politics